Butwin Family Adventures

It's Almost Been a Week

Posted by Ida , Monday, May 10, 2010

Mommy was busy and kind of slacked off a bit this past week. Slow on the blog upkeep. However, it can be easily explained.

More of the same with William. He starts to whine and eventually cry if he is left in a room alone. This has made putting Madelyn down for a nap quite difficult. Mommy knew what she'd been doing had to be tweaked so, she decided to make a few changes and see how they went.

Madelyn was ready to start working on getting to sleep herself. Mommy tried to start with naps and then work towards night time, but changed the plan to get night time down first after the attempts on Monday and Tuesday weren't going well. For Madelyn's nap time, Mommy set William up his Play Doh in his room. That worked out well. Most other times William stays with Mommy in Madelyn's room. Sometimes Mommy softly reads a book to him and other times he just walks around the room playing. He is never very quiet. Madelyn is just getting used to the noise.

William moved on the Letter of the Week - E. Mommy, William and Madelyn went to the library, returned the letter D books and checked out SIX books from the series The Elephant and Pig by Mo Willems. Great books!

Mimi came over on Thursday to hang out with William while Mommy and Madelyn went to get alterations done on Mommy's brides maid dress. William showed Mimi how the plants were growing in the back yard - peas, grapes, grass, flowers.

Ed and Kathleen took William out on Friday for a few hours. They went to the toy store and William got a lawn mower that he loves. He cuts the "grass" in the family room since the weather hasn't been that great. They went out for brunch and William ate bacon, eggs, toast with jelly and potatoes. Then they went to Mimi and Papa's house where they assembled the lawn mower and had a trial run in the yard.

Late Friday night Laura came in! Saturday morning everyone caught up quickly before she was off to run a bunch of wedding errands. Later in the evening Mommy went out to dinner and dancing to celebrate Laura's upcoming wedding.












Sunday - Mother's Day! It was a great, great day. Mimi and Papa came over for a yummy, yummy brunch. Mimi was surprised by her gift and seemed to really enjoy it! Nana and Laura were over for the afternoon and dinner. Best day ever!



Monday has been a day of recuperation!